VSSL Views | Value & Systems Science Lab

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New Data: Trends in Annual Wellness Visits

In a recent article led by VSSL Fellow Dr. Kate Morgan and published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, a group of VSSL team me...

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VSSL Director Appointed to National Payment Model Committee

Congrats to VSSL Director Dr. Joshua Liao for his recent appointment to the national Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory C...

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Review: Impact of Medicare's Alternative Payment Models on the Value of Care

Along with colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania, Joshua Liao -- VSSL Director and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute...

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Leah Marcotte Selected as a CATALyST K12 Scholar

Congratulations to VSSL member, Dr. Leah Marcotte, who was recently accepted into the CATALyST K12 program, which "brings together four l...

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Year-in-Review at VSSL

Dear Friends and Colleagues, There’s no way around it: this has been a challenging year on many fronts, complicating the ability to focus...

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New: Bundled Payments Save Money for Medical Condition Episodes (Not Just Surgery)

In a recent article in the British Journal of Medicine, VSSL's Dr. Joshua Liao and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania publish...

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Payment Model Brief: Direct Contracting

In the latest VSSL brief, a group of Lab team members provided an overview of Direct Contracting, a set of forthcoming payment models des...

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New Insights About Episode Spending Among US Hospitals

In a recent publication in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, VSSL members Dr. Joshua Liao and Lingmei Zhou reported results from an analy...

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Psychology -- Not Science or Politics -- Will Determine a Successful Reopening after COVID

VSSL's Dr. Joshua Liao recently wrote an article for Forbes arguing that while "recovery requires reliable data and strong public health ...

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How Did Group Practices Perform in the First Year of Medicare's MIPS program?

VSSL director Joshua Liao and colleagues recently published an analysis of performance among group practices in the first year of Medicar...

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With More SARS-CoV-2 Tests, More Focus on Test Characteristics Also Needed

In a recent Insights article published in JAMA Health Forum, Drs. Leah Marcotte and Joshua Liao argue for greater focus on, and incorpora...

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To Beat COVID-19, Address Primary Care Payment

In an article published in Medpage Today, VSSL Director Joshua Liao wrote about the need to address primary care payment as part of our n...

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Behavioral Economics & "Diffusion of Responsibility"

At a recent Certificate Program Event (organized through the UW Medicine Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety), VSSL...

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Payment Model Brief: Primary Care First

In the newest installment of the VSSL Brief series, Drs. Jonathan Staloff, Joshua Liao, Ashok Reddy, and Leah Marcotte provide an overview...

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VSSL Voices: Experience of a VSSL Fellow

In this installment of our “VSSL Voices” series, we heard from Dr. Catherine Hwang, an internal medicine resident at Virginia Mason Medi...

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Upcoming Event: VSSL To Hold Session at Faculty Development Bootcamp

Want to learn more about VSSL and it's approach to creating impact? On May 14th, VSSL members Dr. Leah Marcotte and Dr. Joshua Liao will ...

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Issue Brief: Medicare Annual Wellness Visit

In a recent VSSL Volumes Issue Brief, VSSL members Drs. Kate Majzoub Perez and Joshua Liao provide a summary of key points related to Chr...

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When Should Medicare Use Voluntary versus Mandatory Payment Models to Drive Health Care Value?

In a recent Health Affairs article written with colleagues at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health ...

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A Prominent Hotspotting Program Didn't Show Benefit for High Need Patients. What's Next?

In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of researchers reported results from a prospectively designed "hotspot...

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Issue Brief: Chronic Care Management (CCM) Services

In a recent VSSL Volumes Issue Brief, VSSL members Drs. Catherine Hwang, Leah Marcotte, Ashok Reddy, and Joshua Liao provide a summary of...

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